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The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, inaugurated this morning a new ceramic altar that honors the ancient Guild of Silversmiths and the figure of its patron saint, San Eloy.
The mural, which is a new initiative of Murcia Plan was, has been discovered by the mayor in the Four Corners in Silver Street.
Devotion Guild pattern Platero, San Eloy, Murcia was so intense that their guild is an active member of society for centuries Murcia.
However, for many years, the figure of the saint was relegated into oblivion until the Cultural Association University of San Eloy regained Silversmiths.
Missing, however, the perpetual homage to the master in the streets.
The Plan was Murcia and San Eloy Association closed a couple of months ago an agreement for the placement of a magnificent altarpiece ceramic Silver Street, so called to collect on their trades, from the Middle Ages, the goldsmiths Murcia.
The project was supervised by Professors Jesus Francisco Rivas Carmona and Manuel Pérez Sánchez, who decided to place the reproduction of a magnificent eighteenth century engraving.
The engraving represents the pattern image, which was conducted by Francisco Salzillo for the Guild of Silversmiths and Smiths of the city of Murcia to 1749.
A former union
The site chosen for placement of the altarpiece is Silver Street at its intersection with Tatters, exactly at the place known as the Four Corners.
Those responsible for conducting the altarpiece ceramic artisans workshop will Lario, experts in this type of work and a professional career.
In the city of Murcia approved the ordinances of the Guild of Silversmiths in 1738 and still preserved in the city a street of Silver, which recalls the establishment there of these artisans.
San Eloy devotion was so prominent in Murcia that the Guild attended in full to the saint cults that he surrendered in the nearby parish of St. Bartholomew and the standard of the silversmiths of the procession was solemn procession of the Holy Burial of Christ .
A very active plan
The Plan Murcia was allowed to recover up to date works as important as the sculpture Children Playing, Seiquer Elisa, already located in the garden of the Three Cups, The Fame, Gonzalez Moreno, who has been placed in front of the Delegation Government, the popular Malecón Lion, which will be restored in the Restoration Center of the Autonomous Community, the windows of the former Rowing Club, the work of Muñoz Barberán, that will be placed in a newly built library, the recovery of morning coats during the official procession of the Holy Sepulchre, or the signing of a cooperation agreement with 800 booksellers from around the world for the recovery of works printed or written in Murcia between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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